wyoming cowboy wrote:GreekIslandGirl wrote:wyoming cowboy wrote:... since present day scientist are close to discovering the so called "God Particle" ...
That was actually called the "goddamn particle" but it was shortened to avoid offending.
Are you serious?
From The Economist:
"Pinning down physicists about whether they have actually discovered the Higgs boson is almost as hard as tracking down the elusive subatomic beast itself. Leon Lederman, a leading researcher in the field, once
dubbed it the “goddamn” particle, because it has proved so hard to isolate. That name was
changed by a sniffy editor to the “God” particle, and a legend was born. Headline writers loved it. Physicists loved the publicity. CERN, the world’s biggest particle-physics laboratory, and the centre of the hunt for the Higgs, used that publicity to help keep the money flowing."